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On Monday evening on the public service television news channel M1, Justice Minister Judit Varga described the opposition’s “hypocritical” and “irresponsible” behaviour as incomprehensible in the context of the fact that the opposition did not consent to the urgent debate of the proposed legislation about the containment of the coronavirus in departure from the House Rules.

On Friday, the Ministry of Justice accused the European Court’s Advocate General of adopting “the argumentation of the civil-society organisations financed by George Soros” when finding the amendment of the Hungarian higher education legislation to be in breach of EU law.

According to the judgment passed by the Court of Justice of the European Union on Tuesday, the Hungarian government did not contravene EU law when it levied special taxes on telecommunications businesses and retailers after 2010, the Justice Minister told the Hungarian news agency MTI.

In contrast to DK MP Ágnes Vadai’s claim, the Hungarian government will not release a single convicted criminal before the minimum prison sentence imposed in final and absolute court judgements, Justice Minister Judit Varga told the Hungarian news agency MTI on Tuesday.

The government will with immediate effect initiate suspension of the payment of damages awarded to convicts due to prison conditions, the Justice Minister announced at a press conference held on Monday in Budapest.

In a communication, the Ministry of Justice has called upon the opposition to stop intentionally and continually misleading the Hungarian people in the context of the ratification of the Istanbul Convention because by doing so they do not help women.

“Judit Varga also discussed the future of Europe with Czech Justice Minister Marie Benesová”, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement after the Minister of Justice received her Czech counterpart in her office on Thursday.